Naruto: "Two Heartbeats: Kabuto's Trap"Review

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Was the audience supposed to fall for this trap as well?

By Charles White

Last episode Sakura found herself into some very bad trouble when she came face to face with Kabuto and Orochimaru. There was a bit of a wow factor when this happened, because it happened so fast, and we all know Sakura would be completely outmatched facing off against either of the two. Unfortunately, for us things are not always, what they seem. This episode was quite entertaining, but it's a bit of a shame that we had to be tricked in the process.

Anyone who was expecting a rare Sakura fight was sorely disappointed. Naruto soon comes to her rescue and while Orochimaru manages to effortlessly gets away. It's now Naruto facing off against Kabuto once again. It was awesome to see these two go at it again, with Naruto actually getting the best of Kabuto with his shadow clones and manages to hit Kabuto with a Rasengan, repeating exactly what he did the first fight.

With Naruto making quick work of Kabuto, you couldn't help but think that something was up and sure enough, Kabuto had one last trick up his sleeve, as he was able to connect his heart to Naruto's using strings made of Chakra. When connected, both hearts would synchronize and when one stops or goes faster so does the other.

Just when things looked bleak for Naruto, Sasame gives Sakura what looks like some kind of scroll that allows her to cut the threads, thus freeing Naruto. We find out that Sasame was the one who saved Naruto when we saw him drowning in the last episode. Sasame knew how to destroy Kabuto's chakra strings, because it's a Fuma clan technique.

Naruto discovers that the person he battled isn't Kabuto. At first, the reveal was a bit shocking; at least it caught me off guard. To make things more interesting we later find out that the Orochimaru that Sakura saw isn't him also. It ends up being Sasame's cousin that she's been looking for. He's turned evil and has somehow mutated, by absorbing the three fallen Fuma clan members.

That's the episode wrapped up. There was a good action scene and it really was an entertaining episode to watch. It's a bit disappointing to know that Orochimaru isn't even at the temple and that this was just one big trap. You would think Jiraiya would know well enough that Orochimaru wouldn't stay in the same place very long or would know that they were coming to get him. Sasuke's status remained unconfirmed also, well the Kabuto impostor told Sakura that he was dead, but we know that's a lie. So it'd be nice to see Sasuke's status even if it just a little glimpse.

It's hard to rate this episode, because on one hand it wasn't a bad episode, but it's so disappointing that this whole mission seems like it was for nothing. I guess at least Sasame's cousin was found though. It would have been nice to get some kind of Jiraiya update also, but they chose to omit him completely from this episode. Well apparently, Naruto is going to have to find a way to deal with Sasame's cousin one way or another. It should be interesting to see what the plan is next though, now that we know that Orochimaru and Kabuto are most likely not there.